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Research Interests |
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Current Projects |
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Geophysics and geodynamics of ocean ridges, hotspots and large igneous provinces
Numerical modeling of marine geological and geophysical fluid flow processes
Continental shelf geology and geophysics
Mantle flow in subduction zones
State of seismic stress in Virginia |
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Plume-ridge interactions at the Azores Plateau
Seafloor accretionary processes at the East Scotia Ridge
The generation of oceanic large igneous provinces
Large-scale mantle flow in the southern Atlantic Ocean and Scotia Sea region
Subsidence and uplift of continental margins
Fluid flow through porous media |
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Educational Background |
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Courses |
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Marine Geophysics, PhD., Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography |
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| 1995 |
Environmental Sciences, B.A., University of Virginia |
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| OEAS 430/530 - Introdution to Geophysics |
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OEAS 495/595 - Geodynamics |
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| OEAS 620 - Advanced Geological Sciences |
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Selected Publications |
| Georgen, J., Mantle flow and melting beneath oceanic ridge-ridge-ridge triple junctions, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 270, 231-240, 2008. |
| Georgen, J. and R.D. Sankar (student), Effects of ridge geometry on mantle dynamics in an oceanic triple junction region: Implications for the Azores Plateau, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 298, 23-34, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.06.007, 2010. |
| Georgen, J., Lithospheric control on the spatial pattern of Azores hotspot seafloor anomalies: Constraints from a model of plume-ridge interaction, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L19305, doi:10.1029/2011GL048742, 2011. |
| Nicholson,
B. (student) and J. Georgen, Controls on crustal accretion along the
back-arc East Scotia Ridge: Constraints from bathymetry and gravity
data, Mar. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1007/s11001-013-9172-x, 2013. | |
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